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Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May 19, 2015 (Marc Israel Selleml/Flash90)
May 19, 2015, 7:08 pm
Netanyahu shuffles portfolios, backs telecom reform
PM splits Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Ministry; also keeps the Foreign Ministry, Communications Ministry
By Marissa Newman and Jonathan Beck
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, November 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/UdL Digital)
May 13, 2015, 2:39 am
German minister says Nazi-drafted laws still on books, vows to root them out
At Jerusalem conference on anti-Semitism, Heiko Maas says his ministry is taking a ‘self-critical look at the failings of our past’; Bennett praises ‘brave’ speech
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat on January 21, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 29, 2014, 4:11 am
Barkat may be appointed Jerusalem affairs minister
Jerusalem mayor said to be in talks with Netanyahu for the post, Channel 10 reports; PMO denies deal in the offing
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of Jewish students at Texas A&M (courtesy)
September 22, 2014, 12:07 pm
Reservists called up for next Hamas frontline — US campuses
How are the Jewish Agency and Hillel International dealing with the heightened anti-Israel sentiment at North American universities?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett (left) and Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (right) join an 'online jam session' in Jerusalem, February 2014. (Sasson Tiram)
August 22, 2014, 12:10 pm
Will urgent campus pro-Israel project fail through infighting?
JAFI head Sharansky says Diaspora Ministry’s ‘petty games’ threaten to derail first phase of major Israel-world Jewry initiative
By David Horovitz and Amanda Borschel-Dan
A Birthright participant encountering Israeli fauna. (photo credit: Melanie Fidler/Flash 90)
June 24, 2014, 2:53 pm
Minding the gap
Responses to an article about the growing cultural fractures that divide the Jewish world suggest that the scale and depth of the problem is not yet fully appreciated by those who might help solve it
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Birthright Israel participants at Masada, summer 2012 (photo credit: Courtesy Taglit-Birthright/JTA)
June 22, 2014, 10:23 pm
Can Israel rebuild the Jewish people?
A new government initiative that aims to spend hundreds of millions of shekels on Diaspora Jews is a good start, but it is only a start
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Natalie Portman (R) in Jerusalem's Nahlaot neighborhood directing a scene from 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' February 11, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
February 20, 2014, 1:39 pm
Israel to invest NIS 22m to bring film shoots to Jerusalem
NBC series ‘Dig’ to be first to benefit from government initiative that will provide funding for international movie and TV shows
By Spencer Ho
New high-tech initiative allows Jews worldwide join the conversation on strengthening Israel-Diaspora ties. (photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)
February 13, 2014, 11:27 am
Online soapbox aims to foster stronger Diaspora ties
Israeli government and communal leaders to stand by, ready to chat with Jews around the world and hear their ideas
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Birthright Israel participants at Masada, summer 2012 (photo credit: Courtesy Taglit-Birthright/JTA)
January 23, 2014, 4:12 pm
Birthright expands criteria to include second-timers
Discussions in new government task force on French Jewry yield proposal to earmark budget for bolstered French participation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 28, 2013, 11:26 pm
PM lashes out at ‘anti-Semitic’ Israel critics
Netanyahu urges Jerusalem conference to ‘fight and win the battle’ for fair representation of the Jewish state
By Adiv Sterman
An Egyptian man chants anti-Israeli slogans during a Muslim Brotherhood-staged anti-Israel rally in Cairo, May 11 (photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP)
May 28, 2013, 11:39 am
Amid controversy, Foreign Ministry kicks off anti-Semitism conference
Critics bash forum for hosting top officials from Hungary, Greece, Lithuania and Ireland — countries with ‘tainted records’ — on battling Jew hatred
By Raphael Ahren
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